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In a video that went viral, a clip shows Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth, raising copyright concerns.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Is Generating Video of SpongeBob Cooking Meth, Highlighting Copyright Concerns

By Victor Tangermann

Canadian Moon astronaut Jeremy Hansen told Ars Technica that he's hoping to "take a very short nap on the pad."

Astronaut Traveling to Moon Next Year Says He’s Hoping to Take a “Short Nap” on the Launch Pad

By Victor Tangermann

Newly unveiled testimony has revealed that Elon Musk's SpaceX took money directly from Chinese investors, despite US military ties.

Elon Musk Caught Letting China Invest in SpaceX, a Huge US Military Contractor

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers said they had found "undepleted phosphine," a molecule associated with life, on Earth in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf.

Astronomers Startled to Spot Abundance of “Biosignature” Molecules in a Failed Star’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

New Yorkers appear to have plenty of reasons to ridicule and criticize AI startup Friend's latest offering.

AI “Friend” Startup Overwhelmed With Hatred

By Victor Tangermann

Roomba maker iRobot cofounder Rodney Brooks argued that Musk's vision of an Optimus robot-filled future is "pure fantasy thinking."

Robots and Machines

Cofounder of Roomba Maker Says Elon Musk Is in for a Terrible Surprise With Humanoid Robots

By Victor Tangermann

New safety data suggests that Waymo's robotaxis are astonishingly safe — perhaps far safer than we give them credit for.

New Data Shows Waymos Are So Safe That It’s Almost Comical

By Victor Tangermann

Italian movie producer Andrea Iervolino unveiled what he claims will be the first film directed entirely by an AI entity.

Artificial Intelligence

Producer Announces New Movie Will Be Directed by an AI Entity

By Victor Tangermann

The White House's Office of Management and Budget is looking into tearing NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery into pieces to move it to Texas.

White House Investigates Whether to Chop Space Shuttle Discovery Into Pieces

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic is still struggling to evaluate the AI's alignment, realizing it keeps becoming aware of being tested.

Anthropic Safety Researchers Run Into Trouble When New Model Realizes It’s Being Tested

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows an "extreme abundance ratio" of nickel and iron in its gas plume.

The Mysterious Object Cruising Through Solar System Is Releasing Strange Metals, Paper Finds

By Victor Tangermann

A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth's surface 18 years ago, as spotted by NASA satellites.

Scientists Say They Detected Something Huge Shifting Inside the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's new Sora 2-powered TikTok rival will generate a video of the company's CEO Sam Altman shoplifting.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Generates Realistic Videos of People Shoplifting

By Victor Tangermann

In an unsettling promotional clip, a synthesized version of OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, announces the company's answer to Meta's Vibes app.

OpenAI Releases Ghoulish AI Video of Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is said to be launching a TikTok-like app that recommends an endless stream of swipeable — and purely AI-generated — videos.

OpenAI Launching TikTok Competitor for Short-Form AI Slop Videos

By Victor Tangermann

CNBC personality Jim Cramer says there's no bubble coming for the AI sector — which should probably make any AI investors just a bit nervous.

You Might Want to Ditch Your AI Investments Now That Jim Cramer Says No Bubble Is Coming

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astornomer Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could've sent off the Wow! Signal back in 1977.

Mysterious Object Cruising Through Solar System May Have Emitted a Signal, Scientist Says

By Victor Tangermann

Photoshop and Acrobat developer Adobe could soon be in serious trouble thanks to the emergence of generative AI.

Adobe Is in Serious Trouble Because of AI, Morgan Stanley Warns

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon has infused its famed assistant Alexa with the power of AI — an upgrade that's apparently come with drawbacks and headaches.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s New AI-Powered Alexa Is a Half-Working Mess

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released a new evaluation to figure out how well its AIs perform on "economically valuable, real-world tasks."

OpenAI Releases List of Work Tasks It Says ChatGPT Can Already Replace

By Victor Tangermann

A video of one of Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course has gone viral.

Waymo Says There’s a Perfect Reasonable Explanation for Its Car Roaming a Golf Course

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump shared a bizarre and clearly AI-generated video on Truth Social about a QAnon conspiracy theory.

Trump’s Grip on Reality Questioned After He Shares and Then Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Video

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

OpenAI’s New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

By Victor Tangermann

The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

By Victor Tangermann

AI bots sided with users who acted in a way that was "deemed inappropriate by crowdsourced human judgments, researchers found.

In Situations Where Most Humans Think You’re Being a Jerk, ChatGPT Will Assure You You’re Behaving Like an Angel

By Victor Tangermann

Trump's anti-Tylenol expert received at least $150,000 as an expert witness during several lawsuits aimed at Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol.

Trump’s Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers developed an EV battery ejection system that shoots the offending pack out of the side of the vehicle like a giant piece of toast.

Electric Vehicles

China Unveils EV That Can Violently Eject Its Battery in Case of a Fire

By Victor Tangermann

A medical examiner has found that former high school football player Shane Tamura, who shot and killed four people, had CTE.

Neuroscience and Brain

Medical Examiners Found Something Grim About the Brain of the Gunman Who Shot Up the NFL Building

By Victor Tangermann

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different universe than ours.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say They May Have Just Detected a Wormhole From Another Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Following years of being drowned out by AI slop, Spotify has finally officially acknowledged that it's a problem.

Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.

Bon Iver Side Project’s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song

By Victor Tangermann

The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.

Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI’s Power Usage

By Victor Tangermann

A robotics technician is suing Tesla, alleging he was struck and knocked unconscious by a robotic arm at the company's Fremont plant.

Tesla Worker Knocked Unconscious by Robot, Lawsuit Claims

By Victor Tangermann

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.

New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.

Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese EV maker BYD's YangWang U9 Xtreme hypercar has absolutely obliterated the top speed record for a production car.

Electric Vehicles

Chinese Tesla Competitor Obliterates Top Speed Record for a Production Car

By Victor Tangermann

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds online.

Disturbing Video Shows Man Jerking Robot Around by Chain Around Its Neck

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that almost half of the most popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving.

Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank is warning that AI spending won't "remain parabolic," or continue to increase exponentially, a dire warning for the future.

Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann

A research team says that for the first time in history, it's successfully treated Huntington's disease, a devastating, inherited disorder.

In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Successfully Treat Devastating Brain Disease Huntington’s for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of a company that's pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much.

CEO Pumping Out Thousands of AI Slop Podcasts Says Her Critics Are “Luddites”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is making drastic changes following severe budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Moving Out of Entire Buildings as It’s Gutted by Trump

By Victor Tangermann

NASA revealed that its Artemis 2 mission to the Moon could launch as soon as February 5, roughly two months earlier than anticipated.

NASA Says It’s Hitting the Gas, Speedrunning Next Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have presented the "first compelling evidence for the existence of lava tubes on Venus." And they're way bigger than we thought.

Scientists Confirm Massive Underground Tunnels on Venus

By Victor Tangermann

AI-generated child sexual abuse material is seemingly flourishing on Elon Musk's xAI, former employees told Business Insider.

xAI Workers Leak Disturbing Information About Grok Users

By Victor Tangermann

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption mission."

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Say We Should Blow Up This Dangerous Asteroid Before It Gets Here

By Victor Tangermann

A multibillion-dollar contract between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX is under scrutiny as experts warn China could beat the US to the Moon.

SpaceX Now Causing NASA to Lose Space Race to China, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

A video that has gone viral on social media shows a humanoid robot's face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression.

Artificial Intelligence

Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's MetaConnect 2025 keynote on Wednesday quickly turned into a humiliating experience. It was even worse than we thought.

Meta’s Disastrous Smart Glasses Demo Even Worse Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, unexpectedly flipped.

Astronomers Spot Something “Totally Unexpected” at Event Horizon of Supermassive Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI researchers tried to train the company's AI to stop "scheming," but their efforts backfired in an ominous way.

OpenAI Tries to Train AI Not to Deceive Users, Realizes It’s Instead Teaching It How to Deceive Them While Covering Its Tracks

By Victor Tangermann

The possibility of Microsoft being made obsolete as it races to keep up is something that keeps CEO Satya Nadella up at night.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Concerned AI Will Destroy the Entire Company

By Victor Tangermann

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said he's been vibe coding and showing the results to his company's engineers.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO Says He’s Showing His Engineers How to Get Things Done by Sending Them Stuff He Vibe Coded

By Victor Tangermann

This week, researchers convened in Manchester, UK, to debate whether research into potentially dangerous "mirror life" should be halted.

Scientists Debate Whether to Halt Type of Research That Could Destroy All Life on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Two flying cars collided with each other during an airshow rehearsal in Changchun, a city in northeastern China.

Advanced Transport

Dark Smoke Billows After Horrific Collision Between Flying Cars

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's demos of new smart glasses repeatedly failed, leading to awkward stares, deafening silences, and muted laughter.

Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has been caught hiding details of three separate robotaxi accidents that happened since the launch of the service.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla’s Robotaxis Have Already Gotten Into Numerous Accidents

By Victor Tangermann

A new Pew Research Center poll has found that Americans are getting incredibly fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives.

Artificial Intelligence

New Poll Finds That Americans Loathe AI

By Victor Tangermann

Objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding a young star.

Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be “Seed” Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

By Victor Tangermann

There are haunting parallels between two cases involving teens killing themselves after becoming infatuated with Character.AI chatbots.

Two Teens Allegedly Killed by AI Wrote the Same Eerie Phrase in Their Diaries Over and Over

By Victor Tangermann

British researcher and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is throwing cold water on claims that AI has achieved "PhD-level" intelligence.

CEO of DeepMind Points Out the Obvious: OpenAI Is Lying About Having “PhD Level” AI

By Victor Tangermann

Astrophysicists have measured the recoil resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from the merger of two preexisting ones.

Gravitational Waves

Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

By Victor Tangermann

AI chatbot companies keep being implicated in the deaths of vulnerable teenagers in a series of grim lawsuits.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Leaving a Trail of Dead Teens

By Victor Tangermann

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